The Creatures That We Are-Chapter 1045: One Time

Qing Ling jumped onto one of the Butterfly Twin Blades and flew toward Qilin. With powerful swings, she sent a crosscut imbued with lightning toward Qilin.

A sturdy ice wall rose from the ground to block the slashes, and the lightning went into the ground through the ice.

Qilin could’ve simply used Unreachable for a second to avoid the attack perfectly. He chose not to because that would require him to stop using his other Talents, and he would have to stop manipulating the corpse puppets, too.

Similarly, he could’ve taken the attacks with Phantom and Hedgehog, but he considered how he could better control the puppets to deal with Gao Yang. He knew Gao Yang was going to take care of the puppets while Qing Ling kept him busy.

Therefore, Qilin used that to his own benefit, having his puppets keep Gao Yang busy while he dealt with Qing Ling and turned her into a puppet.

However, Qing Ling had the Golden Armor offsetting and mitigating psychic damage from a distance, and Qing Ling was unlikely to get into melee range with Qilin again.

Qilin decided to take the initiative.

With one attack failing, Qing Ling made another attempt.

“Hah—!” she hurled her long blades at Qilin, leaving cyan trails in the sky as they shot at Qilin’s face and chest.

Qilin parried the blades with a quick swing of his cane. The blades spun away before returning to slash at Qilin like boomerangs. At the same time, the Xiu Dao, Butterfly Twin Blades, four single-edged swords, and Black Gold darts closed in on Qilin too, all imbued with Lightning.

Qilin shoved his cane underground to unleash a ring of energy. Twelve shadow soldiers wielding different weapons emerged from his body.

The shadow soldiers confronted the blades. Blows were exchanged in a flurry of movement. Each shadow soldier focused on one weapon, preventing any from getting close to Qilin.

Level 6 Metal allowed Qing Ling to control blades like they were her own hands, but no matter how she attacked, she couldn’t find an opening.

The intangible shadow was just as flexible and agile as her twelve weapons.

Hiss. The shadow soldiers splintered into wisps of black smoke during the clash. They turned out to be comprised of shadow threads.

Qilin’s eyes darkened as he used Telekinesis.

Air stilled for a second, trapping the weapons for a second. Then the shadow threads caught and grappled the hilts of the weapons before they could move once more.

Shit!

Qing Ling pulled the blades back with Metal, and the twelve weapons scattered. However, they were fish already caught by hooks. No matter how hard they swam away, they remained in the grasp of the shadow threads.

Qilin pulled back some of the threads with a splay of his right hand, reeling in a Black Gold dart. Catching it, he did three things at the same time:

First, inject the dart with the slow-acting virus of Patient.

Second, enlarge his arm muscles with Arm Strength and Muscles.

Third, manipulate a certain corpse puppet from afar.

A second later, Ke Yo, who had been hiding, used Strange Whistle.

Gao Yang, Qing Ling, and Qilin all had their thoughts disrupted. Qilin couldn’t control his corpse puppets, and his living puppets were under the influence of the whistle as well given they were all alive.

The fleeting whistle made everyone lag for a second like an EMP bomb disrupting all machines.

It had taken Gao Yang and Qilin 0.1 seconds to recover before they returned to their respective fight, and it had taken Qing Ling 0.3 seconds.

Qilin threw the Black Gold dart with the arm’s explosive power pushed to the limit. The dart shot out like a bullet from a sniper rifle.

With level 6 God of Blades, Qing Ling was fast enough to parry the dart with a blade—but she didn’t have a weapon in her hand.

She didn’t have enough time to dodge the dart, and taking it with Golden Armor wouldn’t be enough to avoid injury completely.

I have to use that!

Qing Ling was just about to lift her left hand when a blurry figure flashed in front of her. The Black Gold dart buried into Gao Yang’s back and penetrated through his chest, flying further still toward Qing Ling’s torso with his blood on it.

With him offsetting its momentum, though, the dart glanced off Qing Ling’s Golden Armor, leaving only a slight scrape.

Gao Yang bled from the corner of his mouth and toppled toward Qing Ling. She caught him with a hand, noticing his smile.

“Be careful. This only has one use. There won’t be a next time.”

He faded into nothingness.

Qing Ling frowned, enraged.

Who told you to step in? You’re getting into my business!

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Gao Yang jumped between the buildings lining the street, fighting a group of puppets.

He could sense that the puppets’ attack power and coordination were suffering. It seemed that Qing Ling was exerting quite the pressure on Qilin, forcing him to deal with her with some of the puppets’ Talents.

The Talents couldn’t be used at the same time by Qilin and the puppets, and thus those with their Talents borrowed lag behind the other puppets in attacking, lessening Gao Yang’s burden and allowing him to better plan his moves.

With a flick of his wrist, he conjured a golden shield to take five shots from God of Firearms. Then he teleported away from the swarm of poisonous wind. Simultaneously, he shot a dozen rapid burning darts at Sister Ling and Flower, the corpse puppets that had halted with their Talents taken away by Qilin.

Unfortunately, Puppet Stubborn Weasel had used Bullseye just in time to redirect the darts to her. The darts were concentrated Fire, and they exploded at impact, the scattering flames cast the whole street in orange-red.

Gao Yang teleported to the traffic light at the crossroad. The red light flickered at high frequency, catching attention.

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A flash flickered through Gao Yang’s eyes.

His heart sank, sensing the death of his double.

When he split up with Qing Ling, he had conjured a double to protect her. The double hid in the dark and only came out to save Qing Ling with Flash Shadow when she was in danger. Now it seemed that the double had fulfilled its purpose, meaning Qing Ling was in great danger—and it had only been ten seconds.

It was too risky to have Qing Ling occupy Qilin. He had to move fast!